Women's Rowing

Carlo Facchino enters his second year as head coach of Santa
Clara Women's Crew and third year overall with the program.
Facchino spent the 2003-04 season as the assistant varsity coach
before serving as head coach of the women's novice crew in 2004-05.
In 2006, Facchino led the women's crew team to their best season
ever, including a fourth place finish at the WCC Championships and
a semifinal appearance at the Dad Vail Regatta in Philadelphia.
2006 marked the first time in Santa Clara history that the women's
crew team reached the semifinals of that prestigious regatta. Three
rowers, Shannon Cosentino-Rush, Natasha Lindstrom, and Katrina
Ostertag, also were named National Scholar Athletes by the
Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association. As the novice crew head
coach, Facchino coached the women's boat to a 9th place finish at
the Western Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championships, their
highest finish in recent history. Prior to arriving on the Mission
Campus, Facchino served for two years at his alma mater, UC Davis,
as an assistant on the varsity men's crew staff and then as head
coach of the novice crew. In the '98-99 season his novice crew won
the WIRA Championships and placed 4th at the Pac-10 Championships.
The previous season, Facchino guided the varsity lightweight boat
to the Pacific Coast Rowing Championship. Facchino rowed for four
years on the Varsity Lightweight boat at UC Davis. In his junior
and senior years the varsity lightweight boat won the PCR
Championship, beginning what would become a six-year title run for
the Aggies.